Whatever Next?: an online platform aiming to open up adoptive narratives An online platform, created by three Chinese adoptee women, is striving to open up adoptive narratives and explore their identities as Asian adoptees. The three women, Hannah Feben Smith, Josephine Jay and Addie Bara, met via Facebook in 2019 before officially meeting in an Edinburgh cafe in 2020. Hannah Feben Smith, a student at Edinburgh University, said that throughout her childhood she struggled to come to terms with “what being adopted actually meant”. She added: “I felt like I actively sought to repress that part of my identity, It was only until I moved to university that I started to question my identity as an adoptee.
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Nominated by
Psychedelic Rick of The Psychedelicatessen, Rob of Chocolate Cake, DJ Livor Mortis of Word on the Street, DJ McKenzie of Splitting Hairs & The Beatles: A Week in the Life, Johnny Ganache of Pint O’ Comics, and
Leith of The Light Fandango
Rob says:
“Here Comes the Sun”, “Come Together”, “Oh Darling”, “Something”, “Golden Slumbers”. Need I say more? (And someday you should really check out Eddie Hazel’s cover of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”.)
DJ McKenzie says:
The Beatles’ last great album, and the album that truly let George Harrison shine as a songwriter.
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Nominated by
DJ Jagged Little Thrill of What the Funk & Word on the Street, DJ McKenzie of Splitting Hairs & The Beatles: A Week in the Life, Richard Kamins of River Valley Rhythms, and
Leith of The Light Fandango.
DJ McKenzie says:
Essentially a “Part 1” to Revolver, providing a stepping stone to the experimentation that would be seen on Revolver. It doesn’t reach the same heights, but songwriting-wise, it’s a masterpiece.
Richard Kamins says:
No longer a teeny-bopper band, this was the first of 3 albums in a row that cemented The Beatles reputation as artists!
Lennon recalled that Rubber Soul was the first album over which the Beatles had complete creative control, with enough studio time to develop and refine new sound ideas.
Nominated by
DJ Cheshire Cat of Wonderland.
DJ Cheshire Cat says:
The first time I spun this vinyl, I ended up with my arms around the speakers trying to get as close as possible to the amazing, electric sound that was overloading my brain. Inspired by Roger Water’s feeling of alienation from his audience and his childhood losses, the album is dominated by his strangled pain and anger. Well composed with leitmotifs signifying recurring emotional strains, the music is brilliantly performed by Waters, Mason, Wright, and especially Gilmour.
19. Fleetwood Mac – Rumours [1977]
Nominated by
DJ McKenzie of Splitting Hairs & The Beatles: A Week in the Life, DJ Deni of Lovin’ the 70’s, and
Rick Reaction.
Fluccs Capacitor says:
Certainly the best produced and lyrically dense projects that is rightfully so the ‘best’ hip hop album. For a teenage poet to narrate life from NYC’s Queensbridge Projects with clarity, fatalism, bravado and wisdom with a relaxed flow, slang spilling out of every sentence to craft gritty street narratives illustrated life from a keen eyed teenager with wild fantasies puncturing the daily desperation evident in Nas’s lyrics.
27. Grateful Dead – Working Man’s Dead [1970]
Nominated by
DJ Steve of WESU Sports & Beyond.
DJ Steve says: I was fortunate to live in NYC and see the Dead perform almost all of these songs before the albums were released. I went to a lot Dead shows.